Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 9 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 406 418 695
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 8.53% 12.67% 15.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.53% 40.43% 48.53%
Number of salaries quoted 229 303 643
10th Percentile £22,000 £26,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £34,725 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,248 1,034 1,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 26.22% 31.33% 31.80%
Number of salaries quoted 583 576 1,273
10th Percentile £26,550 £26,125 £25,650
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -17 111 £55,000 +2.33% 52
Cambridgeshire +7 93 £60,100 +50.25% 43
Essex -9 66 £40,000 -21.57% 51
Bedfordshire +7 54 £14,000 -72.00% 23
Suffolk +27 43 £47,500 -13.64% 20
Norfolk -2 35 £60,000 +100.00% 13
East Anglia - 4 £95,000 - 18
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 32 (7.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (6.40%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.48%) WordPress
4 4 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.49%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.49%) CMS
6 1 (0.25%) Apache
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.25%) Confluence
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 50 (12.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.48%) Dynamics GP
2 5 (1.23%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.99%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 123 (30.30%) Microsoft 365
2 80 (19.70%) AWS
3 72 (17.73%) Power Platform
4 65 (16.01%) Entra ID
5 42 (10.34%) Azure AI
6 20 (4.93%) SaaS
7 19 (4.68%) Azure Logic Apps
8 17 (4.19%) GCP
8 17 (4.19%) GitHub
9 15 (3.69%) Snowflake
10 14 (3.45%) PowerApps
11 13 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (3.20%) IaaS
11 13 (3.20%) PaaS
12 12 (2.96%) Power Automate
13 9 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (1.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (1.48%) OneDrive
15 5 (1.23%) Google Workspace
16 4 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 78 (19.21%) Firewall
2 29 (7.14%) TCP/IP
3 28 (6.90%) DHCP
4 25 (6.16%) DNS
4 25 (6.16%) VPN
5 24 (5.91%) WAN
6 21 (5.17%) LAN
7 14 (3.45%) VLAN
8 13 (3.20%) Internet
9 10 (2.46%) WLAN
10 8 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (1.72%) Wireless
12 6 (1.48%) SAN
13 5 (1.23%) Network Security
14 4 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
14 4 (0.99%) DMZ
14 4 (0.99%) IP Telephony
14 4 (0.99%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.99%) VoIP
15 1 (0.25%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (15.52%) Power BI
2 43 (10.59%) Tableau
3 20 (4.93%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (1.97%) MySQL
7 6 (1.48%) Redis
8 5 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.99%) Big Data
9 4 (0.99%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.99%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.74%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.74%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.25%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.25%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 16 (3.94%) Git
2 7 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.99%) JIRA
4 2 (0.49%) MSTest
4 2 (0.49%) NUnit
4 2 (0.49%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.49%) TestNG
5 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 185 (45.57%) Social Skills
2 47 (11.58%) Finance
3 22 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (4.68%) Law
5 11 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (2.71%) Multimedia
5 11 (2.71%) Publishing
6 10 (2.46%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.48%) Legal
9 5 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.74%) Retail
11 2 (0.49%) Advertising
11 2 (0.49%) Banking
11 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.49%) Marketing
11 2 (0.49%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.25%) Automotive
12 1 (0.25%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 102 (25.12%) Analyst
2 84 (20.69%) Junior
3 80 (19.70%) Junior Analyst
4 71 (17.49%) IT Support
5 40 (9.85%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 40 (9.85%) Data Analyst
5 40 (9.85%) Junior Data Analyst
5 40 (9.85%) Junior Security Analyst
5 40 (9.85%) Security Analyst
6 39 (9.61%) Architect
6 39 (9.61%) Senior
7 34 (8.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 33 (8.13%) Developer
8 33 (8.13%) IT Engineer
8 33 (8.13%) Support Engineer
9 27 (6.65%) 2nd Line Support
10 25 (6.16%) Azure Engineer
10 25 (6.16%) IT Support Engineer
11 23 (5.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 22 (5.42%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.93%) CSS
2 19 (4.68%) .NET
3 14 (3.45%) HTML
4 11 (2.71%) REST
5 10 (2.46%) React
6 6 (1.48%) jQuery
6 6 (1.48%) SOAP
6 6 (1.48%) Vue
7 5 (1.23%) ASP.NET
8 4 (0.99%) PyTorch
8 4 (0.99%) SignalR
8 4 (0.99%) TensorFlow
8 4 (0.99%) Web Services
9 3 (0.74%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.74%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (0.74%) Pandas
9 3 (0.74%) Playwright
9 3 (0.74%) RESTful
9 3 (0.74%) scikit-learn
9 3 (0.74%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.91%) Cloud Native
2 13 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (2.96%) Cyberattack
3 12 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (1.97%) Data Centre
5 8 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.72%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.48%) Driving Licence
7 6 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.48%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.48%) Robotics
8 4 (0.99%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.99%) Blog
8 4 (0.99%) Client/Server
8 4 (0.99%) Management Information System
8 4 (0.99%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.99%) PKI
8 4 (0.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 113 (27.83%) Windows
2 85 (20.94%) Windows Server
3 19 (4.68%) Windows 10
3 19 (4.68%) Windows Server 2019
4 16 (3.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (2.46%) Linux
5 10 (2.46%) Mac OS
6 8 (1.97%) Android
7 6 (1.48%) VMS
8 4 (0.99%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.25%) Unix
9 1 (0.25%) Windows 2000
9 1 (0.25%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.25%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (25.62%) Cybersecurity
2 78 (19.21%) Mentoring
3 72 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
4 67 (16.50%) AI
5 65 (16.01%) Business Intelligence
6 48 (11.82%) Agile
7 47 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 40 (9.85%) ITIL
9 36 (8.87%) Customer Service
9 36 (8.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 35 (8.62%) CI/CD
10 35 (8.62%) DevOps
11 34 (8.37%) Roadmaps
12 31 (7.64%) Analytics
13 28 (6.90%) Software Engineering
14 27 (6.65%) Stakeholder Management
15 24 (5.91%) ERP
15 24 (5.91%) Technology Roadmap
16 21 (5.17%) Data Modelling
16 21 (5.17%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 75 (18.47%) Python
2 72 (17.73%) SQL
3 36 (8.87%) PowerShell
4 30 (7.39%) C#
5 25 (6.16%) JavaScript
6 11 (2.71%) PHP
7 10 (2.46%) R
8 8 (1.97%) Java
9 6 (1.48%) C++
10 5 (1.23%) Bash
10 5 (1.23%) VBScript
11 4 (0.99%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.49%) Bicep
12 2 (0.49%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.49%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 126 (31.03%) Azure Certification
2 45 (11.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 42 (10.34%) Degree
4 40 (9.85%) CompTIA CySA+
4 40 (9.85%) CompTIA Security+
5 37 (9.11%) Security Cleared
6 26 (6.40%) AWS Certification
7 23 (5.67%) SC Cleared
8 19 (4.68%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (3.45%) CCNA
10 13 (3.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (3.20%) TOGAF Certification
11 12 (2.96%) CEH
12 11 (2.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 11 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (2.46%) CCNP
14 8 (1.97%) DBS Check
15 7 (1.72%) MCSA
16 5 (1.23%) Network+ Certification
17 4 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.96%) Accessibility
2 11 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.97%) QA
4 7 (1.72%) GDPR
5 6 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.48%) NIST
6 5 (1.23%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.99%) GRC
7 4 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 4 (0.99%) JSP 440
7 4 (0.99%) NCSC
7 4 (0.99%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.25%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 96 (23.65%) Active Directory
2 23 (5.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 18 (4.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (3.45%) Hyper-V
5 13 (3.20%) Docker
6 8 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.23%) vSphere
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 49 (12.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (2.46%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.72%) Ansible
3 7 (1.72%) SCCM
3 7 (1.72%) Terraform
4 5 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.99%) FortiGate
5 4 (0.99%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (0.99%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.49%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.25%) Grafana
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 271 (66.75%) Microsoft
2 52 (12.81%) ForeScout
3 30 (7.39%) VMware
4 19 (4.68%) SAP
5 17 (4.19%) Cisco
6 15 (3.69%) Fortinet
6 15 (3.69%) ServiceNow
7 12 (2.96%) Palo Alto
8 11 (2.71%) SolarWinds
8 11 (2.71%) Workday
9 10 (2.46%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (1.97%) Databricks
11 7 (1.72%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.72%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.48%) Apple
12 6 (1.48%) Aruba
12 6 (1.48%) Google
12 6 (1.48%) Pega
13 4 (0.99%) Epicor
13 4 (0.99%) Juniper